About famous names: Maniche

Published in: News 16/02/2008

For everybody he's Maniche, but the pronunciation of this pseudonym is incorrect. Even the very Atlético Madrid footballer, currently playing on loan for Inter Milan, fed up of rectifying it, decided to go for it. Nuno Ricardo Oliveira Ribeiro, born in Lisbon, received his nickname after Benfica's 1980s legendary Danish forwardMichael Manniche. And in Danish, the nickname should be pronounced. (February 19, 2008)